R. Jose said: Abba Eleazar told me: Once we had a calf which was a peace-sacrifice, and we brought it to the Women's Court, and women laid the hands on it — not that the laying on of the hands has to be done by women, but in order to gratify the women. -BT Hagigah 16B
Had Rav Jose lived in our day, his anecdote may have read as follows:
Once we had a calf which was a peace-sacrifice, but chas vsholom we should bring it to the Women's Court, because TZNIUS and boruch hashem none of the women laid their hands on it — not that the laying on of the hands is expressly forbidden to women, but this is the sort of thing conservative, feminist women who have been polluted by modern values like to do so to block it from happening we bussed in loads of women to stand there and say "we don't want to lay our hands on the animals so no other women should either."
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